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“People are people, so why should it be? You and I should get along so awfully.” -Depeche Mode, song People Are People “When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell goodContinue reading “People Are People”

Do tons of work on your own before asking. (Writers, at the very least, make a concerted effort to eliminate spelling and grammatical errors and all other typos.) Have a select group of people whose opinion you trust and taste you respect. Even if it’s radically different than yours. Relinquish the need for praise orContinue reading “On Receiving Feedback”

“Don’t demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.” -Epictetus To get to where you wanna go… ..You must first fully accept where you are now. For more on acceptance, listen to this excellent podcast episode with Navy Seal Jocko Willink.Continue reading “Acceptance”

For the actor… Care way less about whether you were emotional. Whether you were “feeling it” up there. That you were moved. Care way more about whether your audience was.

“They went, the Ghost and Scrooge, across the hall, to a door at the back of the house. It opened before them, and disclosed a long, bare, melancholy room, made barer still by lines of plain deal forms and desks. At one of these a lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire; and ScroogeContinue reading “It Will Haunt You”

Measure your success by what others think and say about you and your work. Don’t have your own internal scorecard of excellence. Try to please. Don’t have a plan. Be inconsistent. Do things only when you’re “feeling it.” Don’t have a strong why. Blame others when things don’t go your way. Be boastful. Seek praise.Continue reading “Doomed To Fail”

“Indifference is the elixir of love.” -P.M. (a college buddy) Prescription for your Hollywood dreams…(Or any desire for that matter.) Want it. But don’t need it.

“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” -Meister Eckhart No matter what success you’ve enjoyed in the past, no matter your reputation, no matter your past awards, reviews and accomplishments, the next project you do will feel like you’re starting all over again. Or to use a filmmaking term, you’re “back to one.”Continue reading “Back To One”

Not gonna lie…it always feels great to be asked, to be picked. It’s validation. Know what feels even better? To not need any validation and pick yourself.

“Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.” “What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun?.” Ecclesiastes 1:2-3 “Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost.” -― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy HavingContinue reading “Midlife Crisis?”